CHRP chops it ain't, but smacking the snot out of a few Bazillion Pixels a day in an umpty$$$$k Vertical Market Workstation beats the crap outta' cooking the books under your accountants desk as a back story any day, buddy! [
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First, the real smoking gun . . .
. . . remember that translucent tape I said I'd torn off? There's residue from it in the pics of my case where I removed the indicated patch, but no residue to suggest that the vertical patch was ever applied.
Notice that there's no case cover in evidence in that shot. This is the kind of racked installation I've been envisioning for a case built like this one. Especially so with the extra RFI shielding clips my case has on the side edges, presumably for making contact with the walls in its little metal cage. The clip slots/sockets on the top with matching socket indentations on the bottom had me thinking mobile unit racking.
The punched divot in the stamped rectangular recess makes good contact with the top of the PSU housing, Since the PSU is bolted right up to the case for grounding, my guess is that the nubbin sticking down onto the PSU top is for stabilization/vibration damping or summat . . . dunno, guesses?
I found a couple of interesting benefits/features when that x600 drive plate was installed in a possible retirement job for this box.
First, it raises the Optical to a level which clears an annoyingly located MOLEX socket for the PSU connection . . .
. . . and it effectively turns a three bay config into a four bay config. It doesn't quite fit in its standard plastic mounting, but If I needed it, that I/O panel's PCB would be mounted to the Optical's cover plate so fast its little head would spin and any mounted memory cards or thumb drives would be scattered about.
Better yet, the FDD or Zip still fits fine duct taped onto the Optical up top and there's room for a 3/4 height 5.25" I/O panel underneath. If I were a Video Pro or the Sound Guy for a band this thing would be inside a custom, shock mounted carryall with front/back doors and a storage compartment up top in no time flat. Matter of fact . . .
. . . I may just do that for itsshays-n-igglesgays! :approve:
] ]'>First, the real smoking gun . . .
. . . remember that translucent tape I said I'd torn off? There's residue from it in the pics of my case where I removed the indicated patch, but no residue to suggest that the vertical patch was ever applied.
Notice that there's no case cover in evidence in that shot. This is the kind of racked installation I've been envisioning for a case built like this one. Especially so with the extra RFI shielding clips my case has on the side edges, presumably for making contact with the walls in its little metal cage. The clip slots/sockets on the top with matching socket indentations on the bottom had me thinking mobile unit racking.
The punched divot in the stamped rectangular recess makes good contact with the top of the PSU housing, Since the PSU is bolted right up to the case for grounding, my guess is that the nubbin sticking down onto the PSU top is for stabilization/vibration damping or summat . . . dunno, guesses?
I found a couple of interesting benefits/features when that x600 drive plate was installed in a possible retirement job for this box.
First, it raises the Optical to a level which clears an annoyingly located MOLEX socket for the PSU connection . . .
. . . and it effectively turns a three bay config into a four bay config. It doesn't quite fit in its standard plastic mounting, but If I needed it, that I/O panel's PCB would be mounted to the Optical's cover plate so fast its little head would spin and any mounted memory cards or thumb drives would be scattered about.
Better yet, the FDD or Zip still fits fine duct taped onto the Optical up top and there's room for a 3/4 height 5.25" I/O panel underneath. If I were a Video Pro or the Sound Guy for a band this thing would be inside a custom, shock mounted carryall with front/back doors and a storage compartment up top in no time flat. Matter of fact . . .
. . . I may just do that for itsshays-n-igglesgays! :approve: